CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 15, 2024

The European Union will take a big step toward regulating energy and water use by data centers in September, when organizations operating data centers in EU nations will be required to file reports detailing water and energy consumption, as well as steps they are taking to reduce it. between 2020 and 2030.

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Network World

AUGUST 6, 2024

Rising costs, AI concerns and staffing challenges are among the top issues facing data center leaders in 2024, according to Uptime Institute’s latest survey data. Data center teams are working to balance higher rack power density and future capacity needs with capital investments and staffing limitations.

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Network World

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

billion (£10 billion) to build one of Europe’s largest AI data centers in Northumberland, UK, the British Prime Minister’s office said in a statement. The project is expected to enhance the UK’s AI infrastructure, catering to the vast data storage demands of AI technologies. US private equity giant Blackstone is investing $13.3

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GeekWire

JULY 2, 2024

Its technology helps facilities such as data centers improve energy efficiency by using an array of sensors that measure various metrics, and then analyzing that information with software. The rapid growth of AI is driving new demand for cloud computing infrastructure, which requires substantial energy.

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Network World

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Edge data centers include hardware, software, applications, data management, connectivity, gateways, security, and advanced analytics. Larger ones resemble traditional data centers. Download our editors’ PDF edge data center buyer’s guide today!] [Download our editors’ PDF edge data center buyer’s guide today!]

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Network World

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Solidigm, a provider of NAND flash solid-state drives, and memory giant Micron have each introduced very high-capacity SSD drives meant for enterprise data centers, particularly in AI use cases. Solidigm intros 122TB PCIe SSD Solidigm unveiled its highest capacity PCIe drive yet, the 122TB Solidigm D5-P5336 data center SSD.

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Dataconomy

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

data centers with nuclear energy have run into a significant hurdle. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) rejected a deal that would have allowed Amazon to draw more power from the Susquehanna nuclear plant in Pennsylvania. Amazon’s plans to power its U.S. GW capacity and is located in Pennsylvania.

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Network World

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

The UK government added data centers to its list of protected critical national infrastructure (CNI) on Thursday, the first change to its CNI list since 2015, when it added the space and defense sectors. Earlier this week, Amazon made a major investment in UK data centers. “In

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Rendering of a data center that Microsoft is building using cross-laminated timber for its floors and ceilings in order to reduce the amount of steel and concrete used, which have a bigger carbon impact. But they also need to put their data center infrastructure on low-carbon diets, moving away from traditional steel and concrete.

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Dataconomy

JULY 1, 2024

EU-funded project is set to change the course of digital storage by launching data centers into space, aiming to reduce Earth-bound energy consumption and enhance data sovereignty. Data centers, critical for digital progression, consume substantial electricity and water to operate and cool their servers.

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TechSpot

AUGUST 15, 2024

Located at the Borealis Data Center campus in Iceland, the system is powered by renewable energy sources like hydroelectric and geothermal. Vespertec, Sardina Systems, and Borealis have developed an innovative IT solution called IceCloud Integrated Services (IIS). Read Entire Article

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 16, 2024

The data center market in Spain continues to heat up with the latest major development from Dubai-based Damac Group. The company has announced its entry into the Spanish market with the acquisition of land in Madrid, where it plans to build a state-of-the-art data center.

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TechSpot

MAY 29, 2024

German semiconductor manufacturer Infineon Technologies recently announced a new generation of power supply units, promising unprecedented power delivery capabilities for data centers focused on cloud servers and AI algorithms. Read Entire Article

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Data Center Knowledge

APRIL 24, 2017

Colocation energy use now accounts for nearly one-quarter of Apple’s total data center energy consumption Read More.

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Network World

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

As demand for cloud access soars, AWS announced Tuesday that it would spend £8 billion (about US$10.4 billion) over the next five years in UK data centers. The money will be spent “building, operating and maintaining data centers in the UK,” an AWS statement said. The UK needs a lot more cloud resources,” Nag said.

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GeekWire

MAY 13, 2024

Helion Energy employees working on a component of its Polaris device, a seventh-generation fusion prototype that it expects to produce electricity. Projections for future energy needs for data centers are startling. gigawatts to fuel a fraction of its data center operations worldwide. In the U.S. In the U.S.

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Network World

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Google has signed its first corporate deal to purchase power from multiple small modular reactors (SMRs) to meet the energy needs of its AI systems, marking a key step as AI companies shift toward nuclear power. This move comes as other major tech companies are also exploring nuclear power as a sustainable energy source.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 7, 2024

American utility and power company AES launched a renewable energy program in mid-2022 that is not only reducing its carbon footprint but adding wealth to its coffer. The project, dubbed Farseer AI Generation Forecasting and Market Automation Program, was developed by a handful of AES data scientists in partnership with Google.

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GeekWire

JULY 27, 2020

Power Innovations built a 250-kilowatt fuel cell system to help Microsoft explore the potential of using a hydrogen fuel cells for backup power generation at data centers. Microsoft conducted the proof-of-concept at a data center near Salt Lake City, Utah. Power Innovations Photo).

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GeekWire

JUNE 3, 2024

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, shown here at Microsoft’s Build developer conference in Seattle on May 21, 2024, is the board chair of Helion Energy. cloud and software company agreed to buy electricity from a facility that Helion is planning to build and get running by 2028. Altman has reportedly recused himself from the deal talks.

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Data Center Knowledge

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

Cloud file-sharing giant Box has inked an agreement with the environmental group Greenpeace to eventually run its infrastructure entirely with renewable energy. colocation Green Data Centers'

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GeekWire

MAY 15, 2024

Microsoft’s Thermal Energy Center at its Redmond, Wash. The center taps geothermal energy from the earth to provide clean power. But four years in, the carbon footprint for the cloud, software and gaming giant keeps expanding. gigawatts of clean energy already in its portfolio. headquarters.

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Data Center Knowledge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

The current surge of data center construction projects by internet and cloud giants is accompanied by a surge in investment in renewable energy generation capacity. Read More.

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Data Center Knowledge

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Digital Realty and Equinix lead the pack of data center providers but still use much less renewable energy than some hardware and cloud giants. Read More.

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TechSpot

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

The road to a more environmentally sustainable cloud business is paved with new agreements to access renewable sources of clean energy. Both Google and Microsoft are indeed pretty busy purchasing new clean energy for their European operations, with the overall goal of becoming completely "carbon-free" in just a few years.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 24, 2024

In my role as CTO, I’m often asked how Digital Realty designs our data centers to support new and future workloads, both efficiently and sustainably. Digital Realty first presented publicly on the implications of AI for data centers in 2017, but we were tracking its evolution well before that.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 25, 2022

The adoption of hybrid cloud accelerated the development of new business models, experiences, and efficiencies across all industries. For good business reasons, more than up to 50% of applications and data remain on-premises in data centers, colocations, and edge locations, according to 451 Research.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Members of the Project Natick team power wash algae, barnacles and sea anemones off the Northern Isles underwater data center, which was retrieved from the seafloor off the Orkney Islands in Scotland. The tubular data center, containing 864 servers, was pulled up earlier this summer after sitting on the seafloor at a depth of 117 feet.

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Gizmodo

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Behind every TikTok, Zoom call, and cat meme is a data center that stores, processes, or reroutes that data around the world. The more we do online, the bigger these data centers and their energy footprint get. Read more.

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CTOvision

OCTOBER 23, 2014

Today’s data centers are being built at the forefront of industry standards. Within the past five years, the way we construct data centers has changed dramatically. David Cappuccio, the Chief of Infrastructure Research at Gartner, told CIO that “Data centers will no longer be constrained by one specific site.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 12, 2024

For some organizations, shifting to the cloud has been a relatively quick race toward highly publicized benefits, such as scalability. Following the merger, the energy company began its digital transformation by unifying the three networks under one ERP system, SAP, with plans to eventually evolve to SAP’s S/4HANA SaaS-based model.

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Network World

MAY 21, 2024

At its Build 2024 event in Seattle this week, Microsoft released updates to its cloud infrastructure to bolster support for all workloads, including AI-related ones. Cobalt 100-based VMs are Azure’s most energy efficient compute offering and deliver up to 40% better performance than our previous generation of Arm-based VMs….

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Data Center Knowledge

DECEMBER 2, 2014

Private and public clouds are driving up data center agility, making it possible to more cost-effectively shift workloads to utilize lower energy rates, writes Jeff Klaus of Intel Corporation. Industry Perspectives'

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 25, 2013

Savvis Announces Availability of Rebuilt Cloud Data Center. Savvis Announces Availability of Rebuilt Cloud Data Center. Savvis , the cloud hosting unit of CenturyLink, announced global availability of an infrastructure as a service offering called Cloud Data Center.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 28, 2013

5 Tips to Boost Your Data Center IQ. 5 Tips to Boost Your Data Center IQ. It’s not easy to stay current on the many facets of data center technology and operations. This week’s Industry Perspectives explore five hot topics for data center professionals and executives. White Papers.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The rise of streaming and enterprise cloud adoption have driven an explosive surge in computing demand, giving rise to data centers around the world. Now, a new wave of demand driven by data-hungry generative AI applications is arriving, and it’s bringing with it increasing environmental pressures.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 13, 2013

Top 5 Data Center Stories, Week of July 13th. Top 5 Data Center Stories, Week of July 13th. The exterior of 365 Main’s newest data center facility in Emeryville, Calif. For your weekend reading, here’s a recap of five noteworthy stories that appeared on Data Center Knowledge this past week.

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